Yazoo City High School - Mingo Chito Yearbook (Yazoo City, MS)

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Library and Commercial Arts Yazoo High suffered a loss this year when Miss Patricia McClellan left us to get married. Until she left Miss McClellan was the Business English and typing teacher. Club day found her busy with the Y-Teens. The renowned Mrs. Warren Smith, who never forgets a name, returned to YHS as librarian after three years absence. There's no place like home! Mrs. Smith enjoys playing with her three little boys and is their pitcher in softball. Mrs. Smith also cooks and, of all things, washes dishes to calm her nerves. Miss Louise Hendrix, typing teacher, has become a close friend of all her typing students. Miss Hendrix, who came to YHS with a long, red topknot, enjoys reading, and swimming in her leisure time. This summer. Miss Hendrix taught summer school to the ambitious and not-so ambitious students. Mrs. Warren Smith, Miss Louise Hendrix, Miss Pat McClellan The library is the room most frequented by YHS students. Original bulletin board displays encourage reading in all of the subject matter divisions. Material for essays, term papers, speech- es and themes can be easily located by reference to the card catalogue or by our walking encyclopedia, Mrs. Smith. The commercial arts provide opportunities to gain skill in typing, shorthand, bookkeeping, and other allied business fields. The commercial department aids the Yazoo City business com- munity by producing efficient secretaries and by offering night class instruction for adults and students. Bob Anderson and Clifford Blake- more use the library as a source of information for assigned reports. The adding machine is just one of the machines that commercial art students learn to operate. 28

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Sciences —biological, physical, and chemical Mr. Richardson (Uncle George) received his education from the University of Missis- sippi and the University of Utah. For two years he has taught junior chemistry and senior physics at YHS. Fishing and hunting occupy much of Mr. Richardson's spare time, and he has a garden which is his pet project. This summer he worked at the Chemical Plant. Travis Johnston was the only student to work with taxidermy for his biology project. Travis stuffed the owl shown here, as well as a handsome skunk. Mr. George Richardson, Mrs. Naomi Roberds Who could believe that such a sweet little lady could give such a mean biology test? Anyone who has taken biology at YHS could! For ten years, Mrs. Naomi Roberds has loyally taught her students the study of living things. At home, Mrs. Roberds spends much of her time in her garden, in the kitchen, and on grading biology papers. 27 Ted Taylor is just one of the future scientists at YHS who spends hours working with test tubes and other apparatus.

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Vocational and Industrial Arts The YHS Industrial Arts program gave many boys the practical groundwork for engineering and architecture be- sides helping others to decide upon a particular field Indus- trial arts students not only gained practical experience in constructing, but they also produced useful and attractive handicraft. Machines, shop, and industrial arts were offered pri- marily to those students who, upon high school gradu- ation, wished to enter an occupational field instead of entering college. Mr. Towery and Mr. Bond taught the boys how to operate the machines and hod to use tools in making numerous things. Students learned to work with leather, electricity, and metal. They make such things as ash trays from aluminum and belts and billfolds from leather. Mr. Towery, industrial arts teacher, is liked by many a student. His amiable personality rated him tops among the students and faculty as well. Mr. Towery loves to water-ski and to spend a lot of time with his family. He attended Mississippi State and received a B.S. degree. As an organizer of mechanical drawing, he is always on hand to help any struggling industrial arts student. Mr. A. L. Bond is the YHS instructor of Diversified Occupations and Distributive Education. Having pre- viously received an M.A. at Mississippi State, Mr. Bond came to Yazoo City in 1961. Part of his job is to secure positions for students in his department. He sees that each of his students learns a trade during the school year. When he is not busy organizing the D.E. and D.O. programs, Mr. Bond loves to hunt. The caution and skill that Martin Russell displays was absolutely nec- essary for the accuracy that is es- sential in mechanical drawing. Mr. Towery's assiduous woodwork- ing students construct beakers—a typical scene in the industrial arts shop.